Insect-trap



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM OGDEN, OF PHILADELPHIA7 PENNSYLVANIA.

iNSECT-TRAP.

Specilication formingpart of Letters Patent No. 52.067, dated January16, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IV. OGDEN, of Philadel phia, Pennsylvania, haveinvented an Improved Insect-Trap; and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full,.clear, and exact description of the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference markedthereon.

The object of my invention is the destruction of moths and otherobnoxious insects; and it consists of a lantern having glass sides and areservoir containing liquid fatal to insect life, into which liquid theinsects fall after uttering against the glass, orinto which they areprecipitated by inclined glass plates in endeavoring to fly from thelantern, as fully explained hereinafter.

In order to enable others to make and use my invention, I will nowproceed to describe its construction and operation.

On reference to the accompanying drawings, which form apart of thisspecification, Figure is a sectional view of m yimproved insect-trap.Fig. 2 is a sectional plan on the line 1 2, Fig. 1.

A is an ordinary four-sided lantern, consisting of a frame, otl tin orother suitable material, and of four plates of glass, B, secured to theframe.

A reservoir, C, is arranged to pass over the top of the lantern and torest upon rods c a at the base of the same, the said reservoir havingprojections l), which hold the rectangular strips of glass D in aninclined position, so that they form a partial covering to the reservoirC.

I have described the lantern A as being four-sided; but it may be of anydesired shape, provided the reservoir C conforms to it.

The reservoir C is filled with oil or any liuid fatal to insects, andthelantern is lighted and hung up, care being taken that there is nobrighter light near.

Nearly all insects instinctively approach a light, and utteringlyattempt to gain access to it, in doing which they are arrested by theglass B of the lantern, and in endeavoring to reach the light will flyacross and up and down the surface ot' the glass until they fall intothe reservoir, or, ying oft` from the lantern, they come into violentcontact with the inclined plates D, and, rebounding from the latter, areprecipitated into the poisonous liquid.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. Thecombination, substantially as described, of a lantern of any desiredform with a reservoir, C, for the purpose specified.

2. In combination with the above, the inclined plates D, of glass, forthe purpose set forth.

ln testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specifica-tion in thepresence ot two subscribing witnesses.

WVM. OGDEN.

Witnesses:

CHARLES E. FOSTER, J oHN WHITE.

